More Porque Quotes

 Blessed is the almost insensitive tree,more blessed is the hard stone that doesn't feel,for no pain is greater than the pain of being alive,and no sorrow more intense than conscious life. Cantos de vida y esperanza (1901), "Lo fatal" ("Fatalism") Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 305

 Translation: What interests me about fascism is that it is a black hole of free will. It is a system which isn’t necessarily unique, but it absolves brutality, it absolves the lack of morals and it absolves people of their own decisions. When they tell you ‘you can kill these people because they are Jews, reds or homosexuals, or whatever!’ In this world you can permit a brutal action on the base of collective advice; that is what scares me. Interview with Guillermo del Toro on 10/23/2006. [3]

 I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification."Unworthy", in Brodie's Report (1970); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)Variant: I have thought from time to time that the only thing without mystery is happiness, since it justifies itself.

 The event took place in the month of February of 1969, to the north of Boston, in Cambridge. I didn't write it right away because my first intention was to forget it, not to lose reason."The Other" ["El Otro"], The Book of Sand (1975)

 He thought he understood for the first time why some said life is a dream: If one lives long enough, facts about your life, just like your dreams, become impossible to communicate, because nobody cares about them.Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo, 1969.